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CSS touch-action

Category

User input

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 36)

Intent stage

None

Summary

New CSS property to enable websites to declaratively state how touches should be handled for purposes of scrolling and zooming.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/pointerevents/raw-file/tip/pointerEvents.html#the-touch-action-css-property
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/258459

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/touch-action

Samples: http://rbyers.github.io/touch-action.html

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